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Poverty

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Poverty is a huge part of today's society and more people in the world are considered "poor." In the 1930's, the Great Depression was a huge economic crisis that made people live in fear. This bag will contain the struggles and difficulties that people had to endure at this time.

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The Great Depression gave very little hope to the people living in this time period. There were more people trying to find work at this time to just be able to afford to feed their families. In the video, people's faces display sorrow and pain. Their houses were small, and their clothes were torn. During the 19930's, nobody was rich, everybody was just equally poor.

A section of this website describes the New Deal that Roosevelt proposed to deal with the Great Depression. The New Deal brought jobs and relief to millions of Americans, but it did not end the depression. The depression ended because of World War II.

At the beginning of the book and the movie, George tells Lennie that guys like them travel from land to land, just trying to earn money, but not them. Even though they had a dream to get their own place, George always sub-conciously knew that it was't going to happen. They were just going to go from place to place trying to "roll up a stake" and then eventually spend it all.

This poem represents what people of color had to go through during the 1930's. The lines "I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars... [the] mighty crush the weak" are very inspiring, saying that the weakest of people who stand out will be crushed by not only the economic crisis, but by the government and other Americans.

Artists developed a new interest in displaying the condition of workers and disfranchised individuals. Social realism aimed at social change, and the mural seemed uniquely able to argue for this as a very public art form.

One of Michael Lensen's famous pieces is Mining which was composed a few years after the Great Depression struck, but it shows the workers struggling and trying to make a living.

Lee R. Warthen painted Cotton Scene which symbolizes how the economic depression made everyone work harder.

I think that President Franklin Roosevelt's speech was the most powerful lines in this chapter. The speech is of a hope, saying that there is nothing to fear but fear itself. It reassured the American people that this economic crisis wouldn't last forever.

In Africa, more than 30,000 children die each day from poverty. They cannot get the right medical care or proper clothing to keep them living. In the 1930's, many people died from lack of shelter or food, like present day Africa, but not so much from diseases.

This website shows the unemployment rates from the 1930's compared to today. At the beginning of the Great Depression, 13.5 million people were unemployed, but in 2009 only 11.6 million people are unemployed. Although that number is still very high, it is only 7.6% percent of the population where as in the 1930's, it was 25%.

This video shows that everyone was poor. In the 1920's, when everyone was wealthy and just wanted to have fun, the poor people and people of color were considered the outsiders. When the Great Depression hit, everyone was poor. So basically everyone was an outsider and no one was in the inside, which made everyone on the inside, the same as everyone else.

One of the core themes explored in our Global Citizenship course is poverty. We employ social analysis to better understand poverty locally and globally. Poverty is the result of economic inequality, or the unequal distribution of wealth and income among members of any society.
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